Research the race of the child you're adopting people!!

I believe adoption is great. There are a lot of kids out there who need good families. My best friend, all of her brothers and sisters were all adopted from different countries. My BFF is from Korea and I believe her older brother is too. Her youngest brother is from China I believe, and her younger sister is from Brazil. Their parents are white, so they have a very diverse family. Speaking of diverse families…This little boy that goes to the school I teach at is adopted. His name is Beckton. He has a very affluent name, but it doesn’t fit they way they care for him. His parents I believe have maybe 7 or 8 adopted kids and he is the only African American child. So when I first started working here I noticed that his hair was about 3 months overdue of a hair cut. It was so nappy shawty, I decided to comb and grease it one day. All he kept saying was “ouch, ouch.” That day when his parents came to pick him up, his teacher told me that he said “Ms. F combed my hair”. Then the next day at recess I told him to tell his parents that he wanted a hair cut. Do you think they took him? Hell naw! Basically I got tired of looking at his damn head like that so I wrote down this number to a barber shop, and finally handed it to his father. About 2 weeks later he came in all lined up w/ a fresh cut.
I hate being ashy. I try to avoid it at all cost. But us black folk know that dry skin is just a part of who we are. Beckton has eczema, and do you think his parents attempt to put lotion on the boy? Hell Naw! Yesterday we were out at recess and he had on shorts. His legs were white matching his white tee shirt. I couldn’t take it, so I went inside and grabbed some lotion. I made him rub it all over his body. He looked so relieved.
It pisses me off that they pay 1200 a month for him to go here, but they have him looking so raggedy. I know that the tuition here is expensive, but that is no reason to have him looking like a slave.
People if you are going to adopt, I say do research on the race of the child you are going to adopt. If I was going to adopt a white baby, I am going to do research. I already know they don’t need oil in their hair, so I wouldn’t attempt to put it in there. I don’t know why his family didn’t talk to black people and find out what he needs. Like lotion and a comb to his head everyday. I take that back, his other teacher who just quit said that she told the family that he needed lotion. I guess they don’t care..